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18 elephant deaths in Assam s Nagaon district highlight forest cover loss

18 elephant deaths in Assam’s Nagaon district highlight forest cover loss Though a post-mortem report will be submitted after three days, vets, conservationists and officials are more than sure that lightning was the cause of death Conservationists and forest officials on Friday said the death of 18 elephants attributed to a bolt of lightning in Assam’s Nagaon district on Wednesday night was perhaps the first time that so many of them have been felled in such an incident in the world. A group of 10 experts, including vets and pathologists, carried out the post-mortem of the elephants on Friday morning in the presence of senior officials and forest minister Parimal Suklabaidya. Though the post-mortem report will be submitted after three days, vets, conservationists and officials The Telegraph spoke to are more than sure that lightning was the cause of death.

Wood security is a step towards self-reliance

2137 RK Sapra FORESTS provide timber for the manufacturing of domestic and industrial products. The National Forest Policy (NFP), 1952, envisaged that the forests would meet the raw material demand of wood-based industries, while the National Forest Policy of 1988 shifted the focus to the conservation of forests. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, as per the recommendations of the National Commission on Agriculture, the states implemented externally aided social forestry projects which not only met the demand of raw material, but also led to the popularisation of agroforestry. As per the India State of Forest Report (2019), the recorded forest areas (RFA) and the area under Trees Outside Forests (TOF) of India is 76.74 million hectares and 29.38 million hectares, respectively, which is 23.3% and 8.9% respectively, of the geographical area. The important species in rural areas are mango, kikar, eucalyptus, rubber, shisham and poplar. As per the report The Puzzle of Forest Produc

Forest fire management - Sentinelassam

Forest fire management   |  27 April 2021 5:51 AM GMT Devastating forest fire in Mizoram s Lunglei district has left several settlements destroyed. It also exposed the yawning gaps in forest fire management in Northeast region which accounts for more than fifty per cent of forest fires in India. The Indian Air Force deployed two helicopters equipped with Bambi buckets for spraying water to bring the raging fire in the district and adjoining areas under control following an SOS by the Mizoram government. It is heartening to know that no casualty has been reported from the affected areas. The prevailing COVID-19 pandemic situation will make providing shelter and rehabilitation to affected people a challenging task. According to India State of Forest Report, 2019 Mizoram accounts for the highest 29.91 per cent of its forest cover spreading over an area of 5423 sq. km is extremely fire prone and 38.46 per cent forest cover (7009 sq. km) is very highly fire prone and 24.64 per c

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